tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:07:46 +0000AJandrea josephAndrea Joseph drawingsillustrationmoleskineillustratorinkballpointsepiacolour pencildrawingmy Moleskinesdrawingsdrawn by Andrea Josephballpoint drawingEtsysketchbookbluepenEDMjournalsketchcrawlSheffieldchildrenssketchestravel moleskinepencilcollectionDerbyshirebirocolour ballpointSketchCrawl Northblackfor salesketching MoleskinezinelyricsDr Sketchy Sheffieldillustrator for hireshoescarnet de voyageurban sketchingBuxtonballpoint zinedoodlesMoleskine diaryaround the housegreencolourtravelzinesUrban SketchersDr Sketchycolor pencilcollectionsmini Moleypenscolor ballpointBurlesquesouvenirLondoninventoryshoezines by Andrea Josephredstep by stepAndrea Joseph fontsHigh PeakkeyspurseMolezinecatin my headportraitFrancechildren's bookmooportrait practiceSketchbook Skoolclermont ferrandjane austenpen drawingsketchAdidasAndrea's bookBuxton FestivalPaul Wellerbagbirthday drawingfoot furnitureillustration 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+00002017-09-20T12:39:05.404+00:00andrea josephcatcat drawingdrawing everydayobservational sketchesquick sketchessketch a daycat studies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNc4Tgboyfc/WcJYKwRgCHI/AAAAAAAAHNU/fBwd2ktvZPwEOoEFv_LEFv0RMvjVSP63wCLcBGAs/s1600/flo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="640" height="295" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lNc4Tgboyfc/WcJYKwRgCHI/AAAAAAAAHNU/fBwd2ktvZPwEOoEFv_LEFv0RMvjVSP63wCLcBGAs/s400/flo2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Recently I've got into the habit of doing a little sketch before bed. I've always been a late night creative, I cannot go to bed if I haven't drawn at least a little something or other. But a theme has emerged, as it so often does. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ezWkoT7vOU/WcJYS05jeRI/AAAAAAAAHNY/QKXmNyKw-r8ZxlvK06L3iFE8RW7vQdtLQCLcBGAs/s1600/flo5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="640" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ezWkoT7vOU/WcJYS05jeRI/AAAAAAAAHNY/QKXmNyKw-r8ZxlvK06L3iFE8RW7vQdtLQCLcBGAs/s400/flo5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;I have a little sketchbook that I'd sort of given the theme 'cats and dogs', but, as usual, I'd only filled in a few pages. Then, So I dug it out again and began doing a little drawing of my old cat each night. I wanted to do something that was 'live' (not that you'd notice) instead of still life. I've done more than enough still life, from around my house, in my time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAfgm1K89WQ/WcJYYwWzaJI/AAAAAAAAHNc/uw5ji9Q6E_wQx3BZ9ZWfT55JQKa9d_U6ACLcBGAs/s1600/flo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="640" height="387" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mAfgm1K89WQ/WcJYYwWzaJI/AAAAAAAAHNc/uw5ji9Q6E_wQx3BZ9ZWfT55JQKa9d_U6ACLcBGAs/s400/flo1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The old girl is really getting on now (by that I mean she is ancient) and does little but sleep. I wish I'd started this earlier.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-myK_x22ZwN8/WcJYbY8tKFI/AAAAAAAAHNg/uTDF4h6touok0bjo0-xgaZcZF5lN5igWgCLcBGAs/s1600/flo3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="640" height="395" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-myK_x22ZwN8/WcJYbY8tKFI/AAAAAAAAHNg/uTDF4h6touok0bjo0-xgaZcZF5lN5igWgCLcBGAs/s400/flo3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;There was a time, back in 2009, when I drew her 100 times in just a couple of days&nbsp;(you can see the results of that project <a href="https://andreajoseph24.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/and-i-cant-hold-on-through-my-fingers.html">HERE</a>) but since then haven't really taken the time to draw her. Until now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SZ6H7vym83Q/WcJYgRtAQbI/AAAAAAAAHNk/Z-l3TRGVSQ4d7eMr-XwLONzUdl60rQhTgCLcBGAs/s1600/flo4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="640" height="392" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SZ6H7vym83Q/WcJYgRtAQbI/AAAAAAAAHNk/Z-l3TRGVSQ4d7eMr-XwLONzUdl60rQhTgCLcBGAs/s400/flo4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;So, here she is taking a well earned rest after a gruelling grooming session.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TSgrkvc-dXw/WcJYj-Vu5yI/AAAAAAAAHNo/t57KDtefw64X-HTlYV_e7Qcsm29ouNjJQCLcBGAs/s1600/flo7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="637" height="393" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TSgrkvc-dXw/WcJYj-Vu5yI/AAAAAAAAHNo/t57KDtefw64X-HTlYV_e7Qcsm29ouNjJQCLcBGAs/s400/flo7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;And, her being annoyed about me putting a sketchbook and camera in her face.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IoRPcexuAso/WcJYnoJLokI/AAAAAAAAHNs/qvunRWD8DQMs810hMoqakrnkWbGen22GgCLcBGAs/s1600/flo6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="640" height="392" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IoRPcexuAso/WcJYnoJLokI/AAAAAAAAHNs/qvunRWD8DQMs810hMoqakrnkWbGen22GgCLcBGAs/s400/flo6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;I've also been playing around with collage, just for shits and giggles, recently. So here she is sleeping in collage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-skaPUIastYk/WcJYqjBuZpI/AAAAAAAAHNw/rwVksPB-qnwGtgA60PsMjTjcFrtpIqeZQCLcBGAs/s1600/flo8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-skaPUIastYk/WcJYqjBuZpI/AAAAAAAAHNw/rwVksPB-qnwGtgA60PsMjTjcFrtpIqeZQCLcBGAs/s400/flo8.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love those feet.<br /><br />And, if you did follow the link to the <a href="https://andreajoseph24.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/and-i-cant-hold-on-through-my-fingers.html">project I did when she was a lot younger</a>, it turns out that&nbsp;here daily routine wasn't that much different back then.&nbsp;</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/09/cat-studies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-8794107451639573072Thu, 14 Sep 2017 22:31:00 +00002017-09-14T22:31:59.702+00:00AJandrea josephballpointillustratorthank youthank you<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dCFkLpjZMso/WbsBG8HuPMI/AAAAAAAAHNA/zAN_bVpYvqoBETZKUtRl6xVxu3ipj6o2gCLcBGAs/s1600/five-web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="1500" height="281" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dCFkLpjZMso/WbsBG8HuPMI/AAAAAAAAHNA/zAN_bVpYvqoBETZKUtRl6xVxu3ipj6o2gCLcBGAs/s400/five-web.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Just wanted to say a quick Thank You to everyone who has bought from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AndreaJoseph">my shop</a> recently. And, actually,&nbsp;not so recently. A Thank You to any one who has bought from my shop ever. I guess I don't say it often enough, but I really really appreciate it. It is the difference between me drawing for a living and not. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All the recent orders are now in the mail/post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thank you thank you thank you.</div><br />http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/09/thank-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-487158711134464046Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:47:00 +00002017-08-30T13:47:18.522+00:00Andrea Joseph drawingsEtsyfor saleillustrationwoolyarnRolling Over<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sp9aXEQwFh0/Waa9C-zPQ-I/AAAAAAAAHLc/6tmlVJ5POocMcIzce1zyoQprWDxfNFHKACLcBGAs/s1600/blog-wool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="640" height="398" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sp9aXEQwFh0/Waa9C-zPQ-I/AAAAAAAAHLc/6tmlVJ5POocMcIzce1zyoQprWDxfNFHKACLcBGAs/s400/blog-wool.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">A couple of drawings that&nbsp;I made a little while back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HRYFNN53E1Q/Waa9ca_lEbI/AAAAAAAAHLo/D-BZrK-2Dg0k3zm5z3H_JW8mssdE3Wx9QCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-wool6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HRYFNN53E1Q/Waa9ca_lEbI/AAAAAAAAHLo/D-BZrK-2Dg0k3zm5z3H_JW8mssdE3Wx9QCLcBGAs/s400/blog-wool6.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Originally, I made a similar one for the branding and logo&nbsp;of a yarn shop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D4Hvct_BHC0/Waa-SZyo6bI/AAAAAAAAHL0/CllH61gAY_0bOq9zWYWA0LURLXBtC5rhwCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-wool8.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D4Hvct_BHC0/Waa-SZyo6bI/AAAAAAAAHL0/CllH61gAY_0bOq9zWYWA0LURLXBtC5rhwCLcBGAs/s400/blog-wool8.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;I think 'yarn' is what the serious knitters call wool.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But, I have no clue. I don't knit. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lqyyeRsxh4Y/Waa-WPCye_I/AAAAAAAAHL4/FccOpSyME8McZAsjs6BvkeOarBSdC4ipQCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-wool10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lqyyeRsxh4Y/Waa-WPCye_I/AAAAAAAAHL4/FccOpSyME8McZAsjs6BvkeOarBSdC4ipQCLcBGAs/s400/blog-wool10.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;I just draw.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nqBXYqNnJNU/Waa-aS5UVfI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nxttpLujd20E1tFF6bzE2W8G1twkRhpBACLcBGAs/s1600/blog-wool3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="640" height="396" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nqBXYqNnJNU/Waa-aS5UVfI/AAAAAAAAHL8/nxttpLujd20E1tFF6bzE2W8G1twkRhpBACLcBGAs/s400/blog-wool3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;I really enjoyed this subject matter though. That's why I made a couple more drawings when I'd finished the job. There's something quite abstract about these. And calming.</div><div style="text-align: center;">I guess that's what both knitting and drawing does. It calms us down.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uGti3ZAqjic/Waa-dKbYNsI/AAAAAAAAHMA/ThjBwyDviioaN34PDkrdEcqfkilgSgssgCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-wool5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="640" height="396" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uGti3ZAqjic/Waa-dKbYNsI/AAAAAAAAHMA/ThjBwyDviioaN34PDkrdEcqfkilgSgssgCLcBGAs/s400/blog-wool5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They are also both for sale in my shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AndreaJoseph">HERE</a>. Plus, there's 20% OFF all originals and prints until the end of the week.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/rolling-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-2874261101871783242Sun, 27 Aug 2017 09:38:00 +00002017-08-27T09:39:15.323+00:00andrea josephartartistinspirationa thought for Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KG4N8X-gQZA/WaKNtV27BBI/AAAAAAAAHK4/1k5HqOzvLdQ3lcwWPycqWJeTEm78dG-QgCLcBGAs/s1600/art-blog4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="640" height="333" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KG4N8X-gQZA/WaKNtV27BBI/AAAAAAAAHK4/1k5HqOzvLdQ3lcwWPycqWJeTEm78dG-QgCLcBGAs/s400/art-blog4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A thought for Sunday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mp-8LLLsgkU/WaHFaVfbHtI/AAAAAAAAHKQ/RQ-b9BXASooSS1fR5sjYtqdmbx0SheVmACLcBGAs/s1600/art-blog2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mp-8LLLsgkU/WaHFaVfbHtI/AAAAAAAAHKQ/RQ-b9BXASooSS1fR5sjYtqdmbx0SheVmACLcBGAs/s400/art-blog2.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Surround yourself with art. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Art that you love.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="640" height="390" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DUQ7hDh-rps/WaHFc7Wa3_I/AAAAAAAAHKU/MKzRfilGC6wfyfB6FIBCKFdc4Nlkjzd3wCLcBGAs/s400/art-blog3.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It doesn't have to be expensive, or high end. Or even high taste.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It may be a load of kitsch you found at a charity shop. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ETM98hw-95I/WaKP1mzy2KI/AAAAAAAAHLE/keemGK_5LHwaYG6ORvmpWfUTAUrGsUbqACLcBGAs/s1600/artblog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="640" height="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ETM98hw-95I/WaKP1mzy2KI/AAAAAAAAHLE/keemGK_5LHwaYG6ORvmpWfUTAUrGsUbqACLcBGAs/s400/artblog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">It may be your postcard/flyer/stuff you cut out of a magazine collection.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It doesn't matter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hqJEP9RXEMQ/WaKQu7pbsbI/AAAAAAAAHLM/KH36M7ysqZ0XZSyyf6H_geBPWwGzmUOLQCLcBGAs/s1600/art-blog8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hqJEP9RXEMQ/WaKQu7pbsbI/AAAAAAAAHLM/KH36M7ysqZ0XZSyyf6H_geBPWwGzmUOLQCLcBGAs/s400/art-blog8.jpg" width="327" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">As long as you like it, that's all that matters</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--ib4DUeCnFM/WaHFh-EcL4I/AAAAAAAAHKc/8fHEUvsTN1IbMOSCTWI_s14bNstYzm9YACLcBGAs/s1600/art-blog5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="640" height="395" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--ib4DUeCnFM/WaHFh-EcL4I/AAAAAAAAHKc/8fHEUvsTN1IbMOSCTWI_s14bNstYzm9YACLcBGAs/s400/art-blog5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Just surround yourself with it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Put it up, where you can see it. Put it up everywhere.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kO6dF0pbIDA/WaHFkCk-tmI/AAAAAAAAHKg/i8tREEPlPMsXvce0E6L6TNbdZBnLlshXACLcBGAs/s1600/art-blog6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="633" height="398" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kO6dF0pbIDA/WaHFkCk-tmI/AAAAAAAAHKg/i8tREEPlPMsXvce0E6L6TNbdZBnLlshXACLcBGAs/s400/art-blog6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Because it'll become part of your own work.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And, I don't mean copy it or even try to emulate it. Don't bother. You don't need to. Just let it be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-id5-AOM0afM/WaHFoFM5J2I/AAAAAAAAHKk/aYLeitF6BbkqIjfxTsTLKpPJjp3u8TmoACLcBGAs/s1600/art-blog7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="640" height="295" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-id5-AOM0afM/WaHFoFM5J2I/AAAAAAAAHKk/aYLeitF6BbkqIjfxTsTLKpPJjp3u8TmoACLcBGAs/s400/art-blog7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Trust that, just by being there, it will seep into your work. Without you knowing, it'll become part of you and your style. Just by being there. I love that. I love knowing that.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-thought-for-sunday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-974489713739897023Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:55:00 +00002017-08-23T16:55:23.515+00:00andrea josephballpoint artballpoint artistballpoint zinefor salehow to drawzineshow to draw an idle daydream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hrkdp2psQ_U/WZ2wRDMcJhI/AAAAAAAAHJk/dqWd329aOZMmnT4mYB9wXc0ntocKq5iGACLcBGAs/s1600/zines-blog1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hrkdp2psQ_U/WZ2wRDMcJhI/AAAAAAAAHJk/dqWd329aOZMmnT4mYB9wXc0ntocKq5iGACLcBGAs/s400/zines-blog1.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's a little <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/539102774/3-zine-offer-zines-about-pens-and?ref=shop_home_active_1">zine bundle</a> I've put together. These three zines are all about the drawing, and are currently on offer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5PIsD5-2IUw/WZ2wTeZgIPI/AAAAAAAAHJo/FpB2f8_N3nY1UP0JXg2hROTiszE2K573wCLcBGAs/s1600/zines-blog.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1500" height="297" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5PIsD5-2IUw/WZ2wTeZgIPI/AAAAAAAAHJo/FpB2f8_N3nY1UP0JXg2hROTiszE2K573wCLcBGAs/s400/zines-blog.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">'How To Draw Like A Barmpot' is from my How to Draw With A Ballpoint Pen series of zines. The first two in the series have now sold out. This one focuses on drawing&nbsp;from your imagination. It includes lots of ideas to get your own&nbsp;imagination working. Limited stock.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5qGfdijeOv8/WZ2wVv1dC9I/AAAAAAAAHJs/aFpY5A0fi5srAqz4Of8RQfad49LlYGTGACLcBGAs/s1600/zines-blog2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="640" height="282" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5qGfdijeOv8/WZ2wVv1dC9I/AAAAAAAAHJs/aFpY5A0fi5srAqz4Of8RQfad49LlYGTGACLcBGAs/s400/zines-blog2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;'An Idle Daydream' is a collection of blogposts that is also a little pen guide. I talk about a few of my favourite pens in this zine.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cMQeBQtrG_E/WZ2wZFdgv-I/AAAAAAAAHJw/a1tC8vJnfX8i1QV4cQdyf-rCsvAeh2ATgCLcBGAs/s1600/zines-blog4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cMQeBQtrG_E/WZ2wZFdgv-I/AAAAAAAAHJw/a1tC8vJnfX8i1QV4cQdyf-rCsvAeh2ATgCLcBGAs/s400/zines-blog4.jpg" width="393" /></a></div>'Molezine 2' is a mini version of one of my sketchbooks. It contains eight of my favourite drawings from my travel themed Moleskine sketchbook.&nbsp;And it's small enough to be popped into the pocket at the back of your own Moleskine sketchbook. Very limited stock.<br /><br />You can now get all three together,&nbsp;on offer,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/539102774/3-zine-offer-zines-about-pens-and?ref=shop_home_active_1">HERE</a>. Perfect for anyone who loves to draw.<br />Thanks for visiting my little&nbsp;blog, folks.http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-to-draw-idle-daydream.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-1621809417697454253Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:25:00 +00002017-08-21T14:26:08.674+00:00Andrea Joseph drawingsbook illustrationchildren's bookillustratorillustrator for hireTowers Fallingurban sketchingurban sketching and beyond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-64Q8fJQYFfw/WZrDnP84dZI/AAAAAAAAHJQ/T087ZUEhvBQR2AvLdcitSpk-Tn0dmSZ-ACLcBGAs/s1600/blog-subway.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-64Q8fJQYFfw/WZrDnP84dZI/AAAAAAAAHJQ/T087ZUEhvBQR2AvLdcitSpk-Tn0dmSZ-ACLcBGAs/s400/blog-subway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Last year I created the illustrations for a children's book called Towers Falling.&nbsp;My drawings were meant to be the drawings&nbsp;created by one of the main characters, a boy called Ben. Just thought I'd show the process from my urban/observational sketches to the final illustration.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BVW-8sJlCdQ/WZq_B6OH6vI/AAAAAAAAHIw/fV_MIS3E_N88NAwaeuAz1Thh0c2e__t7gCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-sketchbooks2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="664" height="273" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BVW-8sJlCdQ/WZq_B6OH6vI/AAAAAAAAHIw/fV_MIS3E_N88NAwaeuAz1Thh0c2e__t7gCLcBGAs/s400/blog-sketchbooks2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;As soon as I got the brief I knew (in my head) what I wanted the sketchbook pages to look like. I'd spent a good couple of years filling up these small cheap sketchbooks with quick drawings of buildings and people. Mainly people. These pages were my starting point.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lnoNqqzMJOM/WZq_Em5vF2I/AAAAAAAAHI0/apYQqVSxKYAqKhJUXBTH-v7rV-X1L0h9QCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-sketchbooks.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="654" height="283" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lnoNqqzMJOM/WZq_Em5vF2I/AAAAAAAAHI0/apYQqVSxKYAqKhJUXBTH-v7rV-X1L0h9QCLcBGAs/s400/blog-sketchbooks.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I really liked the layout of the one above, with the different size faces. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also wanted all the people, to be authentic; to be people that I'd sketched from life, on trains, planes and in cafes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wznA9ZUUgZY/WZrDLeRDiHI/AAAAAAAAHJA/eR7iy2gG4RAsi8npoN-ZyKZZ9doaArUewCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-girl2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wznA9ZUUgZY/WZrDLeRDiHI/AAAAAAAAHJA/eR7iy2gG4RAsi8npoN-ZyKZZ9doaArUewCLcBGAs/s400/blog-girl2.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The&nbsp;brief here, was to&nbsp;illustrate a couple of Ben's sketchbook spreads, that he'd made of commuters on&nbsp;the subway.&nbsp;I chose this girl, above,&nbsp;to begin with - mainly because&nbsp;it was one of my favourite observational sketches. It's so much easier when they're asleep.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jled1SqiMHI/WZrDPH0sOEI/AAAAAAAAHJE/Pb4QP23A7nsSdV56gqhM3OpnQPF7DCjbgCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-arrows.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Jled1SqiMHI/WZrDPH0sOEI/AAAAAAAAHJE/Pb4QP23A7nsSdV56gqhM3OpnQPF7DCjbgCLcBGAs/s400/blog-arrows.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Starting with her, I then worked in the other characters around her, filling up Ben's sketchbooks with characters from my own (get's confusing, doesn't it?).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tu__X6QkASg/WZrDTuwIY-I/AAAAAAAAHJI/vdfj-vP4RkcmR_tuR2B6UtC8lGq65tkywCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-arrows2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tu__X6QkASg/WZrDTuwIY-I/AAAAAAAAHJI/vdfj-vP4RkcmR_tuR2B6UtC8lGq65tkywCLcBGAs/s400/blog-arrows2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;A few friends, and people I sketch with, ended up becoming&nbsp;people on the subway too. And, I squashed another&nbsp;girl, from one of my favourite train sketches, below, in on the bottom left. Sure, it's not exactly like her, but&nbsp;that's why we have our&nbsp;artistic licenses.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sN-mIHqGb7E/WZrDU_7S_DI/AAAAAAAAHJM/RxjkaMqZ7l8nt856NpqSh9lKZCkR1nM-QCLcBGAs/s1600/blog-girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sN-mIHqGb7E/WZrDU_7S_DI/AAAAAAAAHJM/RxjkaMqZ7l8nt856NpqSh9lKZCkR1nM-QCLcBGAs/s400/blog-girl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I love how these random people have made their way into the story. I find myself creating whole new characters for them, as I draw them commuting&nbsp;on the New York subway. They take on a whole new life, out there in the world.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4maYRX30veM/WZq-44MBXfI/AAAAAAAAHI4/8ZmQ0dOmb2IAOomHW-pBXCy9UWVeDNeSQCEwYBhgL/s1600/blog-book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="1600" height="323" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4maYRX30veM/WZq-44MBXfI/AAAAAAAAHI4/8ZmQ0dOmb2IAOomHW-pBXCy9UWVeDNeSQCEwYBhgL/s400/blog-book.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Urban sketching, observational drawing, whatever you want to call it is something I do to improve my skills. I don't associate myself, or my work,&nbsp;with a specific genre or group. I don't consider myself as an 'Urban Sketcher', it's just something I do a lot of. But,&nbsp;it's just a part of my work. I like the way&nbsp;I've embroidered it&nbsp;into my book illustrations here. I like taking it&nbsp;a step further. <br />Dunno why. Just do. http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/beyond-urban-sketching.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-4807827144528160398Sat, 19 Aug 2017 20:12:00 +00002017-08-19T20:12:34.034+00:00#TheLinks105 Lexington Avenueandrea josephgraphic novelNew YorkThe Linkswhy i went missing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_5PnFXROOoA/WZiZyuqnpeI/AAAAAAAAHIQ/jqi49pIQIlEhAYDpw6E-hZ8r2CltYCijgCLcBGAs/s1600/links-landscape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_5PnFXROOoA/WZiZyuqnpeI/AAAAAAAAHIQ/jqi49pIQIlEhAYDpw6E-hZ8r2CltYCijgCLcBGAs/s400/links-landscape.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I've been spending a lot of time here recently. It was why I went missing, from this blog, for a few months earlier&nbsp;in the&nbsp;year. I've been at The Links. It's an apartment block in New York. On Lexington Avenue to be precise. The tenants are so damn weird. And intriguing. And that's why I couldn't leave. I've been sat in Apartment 24 studying them all. I'll tell you more about them some day. http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/why-i-went-missing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-1176286668638053775Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:23:00 +00002017-08-18T12:23:09.234+00:00AJandrea josephfood drawingsforageforagingfungiGet Funghiinkink drawingmushroomsporciniSwedishthe reasons i love ink <div style="text-align: center;">The reasons I love ink (part 1)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mm5A87dFT28/WZVwMldJ2FI/AAAAAAAAHG8/feMQXmYY8X06U7ZWCnpfe9WWbdD7aToMwCLcBGAs/s1600/mush5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mm5A87dFT28/WZVwMldJ2FI/AAAAAAAAHG8/feMQXmYY8X06U7ZWCnpfe9WWbdD7aToMwCLcBGAs/s400/mush5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kxhwx-N6DOo/WZVx85yATII/AAAAAAAAHHI/Vy-a6Z9215wd4ya6-fnf7ekKK2IOtA8JwCLcBGAs/s1600/mush3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kxhwx-N6DOo/WZVx85yATII/AAAAAAAAHHI/Vy-a6Z9215wd4ya6-fnf7ekKK2IOtA8JwCLcBGAs/s400/mush3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pTkhtlDNN0w/WZbaqPwdg5I/AAAAAAAAHH4/soOCGNJujywYBSuYndcNm5T0AkwLDwvNQCLcBGAs/s1600/mush11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="639" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pTkhtlDNN0w/WZbaqPwdg5I/AAAAAAAAHH4/soOCGNJujywYBSuYndcNm5T0AkwLDwvNQCLcBGAs/s400/mush11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;This</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1gzju-6SrI/WZbauwfyoqI/AAAAAAAAHH8/x0n2yGnBaX05d3EoZfxr5isJEA5YQms4wCLcBGAs/s1600/mush2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z1gzju-6SrI/WZbauwfyoqI/AAAAAAAAHH8/x0n2yGnBaX05d3EoZfxr5isJEA5YQms4wCLcBGAs/s400/mush2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oh, and this</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gLibIJZ2wUg/WZba0Nlo-ZI/AAAAAAAAHIA/XPdfZ05dpv8GNMYzfDehCbQTHylOaepAACLcBGAs/s1600/mush1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="640" height="367" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gLibIJZ2wUg/WZba0Nlo-ZI/AAAAAAAAHIA/XPdfZ05dpv8GNMYzfDehCbQTHylOaepAACLcBGAs/s400/mush1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And all of this.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-reasons-i-love-ink.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-8467555551225115832Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:49:00 +00002017-08-16T10:59:26.128+00:00andrea josephAndrea Joseph drawingsFrida Kahloinspirational womennight owlpop uppop up sketchbookportrait practiceupside down drawingupside down portraitslate at night, when the world is dreaming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fLtThU0qvKI/WZQf0s_hApI/AAAAAAAAHGs/-SNPML0LCUMrrTA7-aPwgWwTEhGDdZxDACLcBGAs/s1600/frida-popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="640" height="387" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fLtThU0qvKI/WZQf0s_hApI/AAAAAAAAHGs/-SNPML0LCUMrrTA7-aPwgWwTEhGDdZxDACLcBGAs/s400/frida-popup.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>No matter how much I try to change (and believe me, I've tried everything) I'll always be a night owl. I just love working at that time of night/morning.&nbsp;It seems that at any given time, I'll have a million and one ideas, never focusing on one and seeing it through, swimming through my head too. In last night's midnight creativity session I was playing around with the idea of making a pop-up sketchbook filled with <a href="http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-upside-down-sketchbook-project.html">upside-down&nbsp;portraits</a> of&nbsp;women who have left their mark on this world and on me. I know, I know, it's just so predictable. Everyone, and their mother,&nbsp;is at the pop-up-sketchbook-of-upside-down-drawings-of-inspirational-creative-women thing, right?&nbsp; Erm, oh, just me then?http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/late-at-night-when-world-is-dreaming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-3302994600555748634Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:41:00 +00002017-08-14T22:41:45.515+00:00andrea josephbook illustrationillustrationillustratorinkink drawingmoominsmuseTove JanssonFor the love of Tove<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CQ-CMKVsYYo/WZIl7Zlf2LI/AAAAAAAAHGY/w3iuLfoZCPkVfKwI2XBeuv23tXRfGJAZACLcBGAs/s1600/tove.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CQ-CMKVsYYo/WZIl7Zlf2LI/AAAAAAAAHGY/w3iuLfoZCPkVfKwI2XBeuv23tXRfGJAZACLcBGAs/s400/tove.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">No. No. No cat. Not on my drawing of Tove Jansson.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh, you are.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/for-love-of-tove.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-2493562432197344023Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:51:00 +00002017-08-02T12:51:34.583+00:00AJandrea josephAndrea Joseph drawingscoloursketchbookUrban Sketchersurban sketchingwatercoloura new affair<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bt4Zxby7NVU/WYG5z3K6JHI/AAAAAAAAHFQ/pjIMs_F4_eMA_EgASDxXPHPvbf8B1tdSgCLcBGAs/s1600/e%2526g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="640" height="318" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bt4Zxby7NVU/WYG5z3K6JHI/AAAAAAAAHFQ/pjIMs_F4_eMA_EgASDxXPHPvbf8B1tdSgCLcBGAs/s400/e%2526g.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Recently I've had this urge. An&nbsp;itch to scratch.&nbsp;I just cannot get enough of&nbsp;colour. Specifically watercolour. It coincided with the landscape stuff I've been doing (in my last couple of posts), and has pretty much taken over all of my work.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DHl0faWsmyM/WYG55F1jLRI/AAAAAAAAHFY/AM3RmmePG2c3XvULLTbrAopeh_n-rdFYQCLcBGAs/s1600/croydon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DHl0faWsmyM/WYG55F1jLRI/AAAAAAAAHFY/AM3RmmePG2c3XvULLTbrAopeh_n-rdFYQCLcBGAs/s400/croydon.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I've always known that urge would come knocking on my door one day. My watercolour set has been patiently&nbsp;sat there, like a book that you're really excited to read, that's been in the pile of books by the side of your bed, just&nbsp;waiting for it's time to come.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZFVv7kCrG8c/WYG577G_8GI/AAAAAAAAHFc/YSFnjihYU-sJLONtr13lYYLArASV3jmCACLcBGAs/s1600/croydon2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZFVv7kCrG8c/WYG577G_8GI/AAAAAAAAHFc/YSFnjihYU-sJLONtr13lYYLArASV3jmCACLcBGAs/s400/croydon2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I'm not impatient about stuff like that. I totally believe that you shouldn't try something because it's the thing to do, or cos everyone else is doing it or because it's there. I wait.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b6ntCoeCr1A/WYG6dRwywAI/AAAAAAAAHFg/DMJUlOAUMew6qYEo_nab_Uq6g3ZGkwyewCLcBGAs/s1600/pizza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="640" height="393" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b6ntCoeCr1A/WYG6dRwywAI/AAAAAAAAHFg/DMJUlOAUMew6qYEo_nab_Uq6g3ZGkwyewCLcBGAs/s400/pizza.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Until I really really want to do it. Until I have no choice in the matter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r2jwJJiSZmM/WYG6tcn7MxI/AAAAAAAAHFk/vAE9Pt-y7tIRY-dbGd3jgoJn22tb1ViOACLcBGAs/s1600/radish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="1199" height="373" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r2jwJJiSZmM/WYG6tcn7MxI/AAAAAAAAHFk/vAE9Pt-y7tIRY-dbGd3jgoJn22tb1ViOACLcBGAs/s400/radish.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;Now, you see, I LOVE ink. I am head over heels with it,&nbsp;but lets face it, ink is a pain in the ass. It's a pain to take out. It's high maintenance. I'm not talking about just taking out one colour, that's fine, but if you want a full palette it's just an impractical pain in the butt. And,&nbsp;believe me I tried to make it work.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3T0fnu0WlNU/WYG6yxoKcxI/AAAAAAAAHFs/99ac2lPv2AQiV_3YCUBCIwB85xuomlWUACLcBGAs/s1600/pt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="639" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3T0fnu0WlNU/WYG6yxoKcxI/AAAAAAAAHFs/99ac2lPv2AQiV_3YCUBCIwB85xuomlWUACLcBGAs/s400/pt.jpg" width="323" /></a></div>&nbsp;So, after a year of juggling dip pens and three or four bottles of ink on a street corner, or scrubbing the table at your regular café because you'd spilled the bulletproof black ink, again, the watercolour set caught my eye.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GEvmklBZYio/WYG62ppsIpI/AAAAAAAAHFw/CZLNd9dKgRcW4Yp7dLyoO3hASAepd9zQgCLcBGAs/s1600/river.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GEvmklBZYio/WYG62ppsIpI/AAAAAAAAHFw/CZLNd9dKgRcW4Yp7dLyoO3hASAepd9zQgCLcBGAs/s400/river.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;Sure it isn't quite as dramatic as Mr Ink, he's more subtle, but, you know, more&nbsp;reliable. True, he's not as intense either, but, you get twelve colours in&nbsp;one set and he doesn't leak all over your bag. And, anyway, I'm kinda enjoying&nbsp;his subtle flatter tones. Plus, it doesn't show you up in your local café. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-92ID3JqitMQ/WYG68qaKa3I/AAAAAAAAHF0/Frvx9ivf08YMix4ftLYOvGPJ7Hfidpr8ACLcBGAs/s1600/slopescoffee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-92ID3JqitMQ/WYG68qaKa3I/AAAAAAAAHF0/Frvx9ivf08YMix4ftLYOvGPJ7Hfidpr8ACLcBGAs/s400/slopescoffee.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, I have started falling for watercolours.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vflcdANOH5c/WYG6_I_rQxI/AAAAAAAAHF4/L35WxRP_0w4k9otDLbziMATuMmtxb4-wgCLcBGAs/s1600/slopes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="635" height="358" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vflcdANOH5c/WYG6_I_rQxI/AAAAAAAAHF4/L35WxRP_0w4k9otDLbziMATuMmtxb4-wgCLcBGAs/s400/slopes.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I haven't got a clue what I'm doing yet, but I don't care. The fun bit is finding out where this new affair will go. And, if that turns out to be nowhere that's okay too. I'll have new stuff in my locker. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Ngw1RAB6Y/WYG7Bx_M9FI/AAAAAAAAHF8/gR7RELLm73otQMw-rGE9hhBPW4mAoAeAwCLcBGAs/s1600/rasps.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="640" height="317" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z9Ngw1RAB6Y/WYG7Bx_M9FI/AAAAAAAAHF8/gR7RELLm73otQMw-rGE9hhBPW4mAoAeAwCLcBGAs/s320/rasps.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I've always loved monochrome drawings but it feels liberating to not be tied to that black line. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Prints of my new landscapes now in <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AndreaJoseph">my Etsy shop</a> </div><div style="text-align: center;">(sorry to be peddling my wares but I have bills to pay. Lots of bills).</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/08/a-new-affair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-7675172067399975436Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:10:00 +00002017-07-27T10:10:41.889+00:00AJandrea josephAndrea Joseph drawingsDerbyshirefurness valegreenHigh Peakhow green is my valleyNew Millswatercolourhow green is my valley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-L5QftlTjs/WXmydKxcciI/AAAAAAAAHEY/YK-jNpWwWUUEHuhz2ignj4bE86JAUxK8ACLcBGAs/s1600/signal%2Bbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="639" height="270" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-L5QftlTjs/WXmydKxcciI/AAAAAAAAHEY/YK-jNpWwWUUEHuhz2ignj4bE86JAUxK8ACLcBGAs/s400/signal%2Bbox.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Okay, I'll stop with this soon, but&nbsp;I'm really enjoying this work right now. All of these recent landscape drawings were meant to include a signal box (you can see it in my last post). The white space, on the right hand side of this one, was left so that I could squeeze it in. Now I'm not even sure if I'll put it in at all. It's been a bit of an obsession for me that signal box. I think if anything could become my Monte Sainte-Victore (for those not in the know, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Sainte-Victoire_(C%C3%A9zanne)">Cezanne painted it over and over again</a>,&nbsp;in every season) it would be that signal box. I love it and have done since I moved here. I've wanted to draw it for the longest time, but never got around to it. But the other day it was just calling me. I've been back each day since. So far, it's only made it into one drawing.</div><br />http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/07/how-green-is-my-valley.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-1983327898465768197Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:49:00 +00002017-07-25T15:50:02.209+00:00AJandrea josephAndrea Joseph drawingsgreenHigh Peakhillsthe Peak Districtthe peakswatercolourthat's where you'll find me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x4zxgmbARgM/WXdl1qP6HcI/AAAAAAAAHDs/-QIenLeNGLge8B6JwJHXZwXva5eKF6mhACLcBGAs/s1600/hills.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="640" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x4zxgmbARgM/WXdl1qP6HcI/AAAAAAAAHDs/-QIenLeNGLge8B6JwJHXZwXva5eKF6mhACLcBGAs/s400/hills.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I have this thirst for landscapes at the moment. I don't know where it has come from, I try not to question it.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_R9ht8TYpY/WXdl6RTfUdI/AAAAAAAAHDw/rKQczZQcCfs-VDsTtFORAL1xNfdgca93ACLcBGAs/s1600/painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="634" height="358" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q_R9ht8TYpY/WXdl6RTfUdI/AAAAAAAAHDw/rKQczZQcCfs-VDsTtFORAL1xNfdgca93ACLcBGAs/s400/painting.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I adore the British landscape. It's so beautiful&nbsp;and green and&nbsp;lush. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aAle0s87wos/WXdl9c62CAI/AAAAAAAAHD0/GcR4K9w6GlwupYOqbeblwYGD50wJ606qQCLcBGAs/s1600/paints.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="639" height="315" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aAle0s87wos/WXdl9c62CAI/AAAAAAAAHD0/GcR4K9w6GlwupYOqbeblwYGD50wJ606qQCLcBGAs/s400/paints.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I've done quite a bit of travelling in the past,&nbsp;and been to&nbsp;some stunning places, but I think that the colours of the UK are my favourite. There has to be some pay off for all that rain. I always knew what an inspiration it was to me, even though I was drawing lots of man made stuff. I'd drive through these hills and imagine I was breathing in the beauty and that somehow, even though it wasn't obvious, it would come out in my work.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UkqU-JJ1lwE/WXdmNqIXP7I/AAAAAAAAHD8/x2S9ocB8vyc-pIpm-nM3WwZ65EHE_tAKwCLcBGAs/s1600/hills-cushion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UkqU-JJ1lwE/WXdmNqIXP7I/AAAAAAAAHD8/x2S9ocB8vyc-pIpm-nM3WwZ65EHE_tAKwCLcBGAs/s400/hills-cushion.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;I've a long way to go before I produce anything I'm really happy with as I'm playing around with a whole new medium in watercolour. My attempts are a bit dull and dirty looking, but that's because I'm a messy worker. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-umRTuKwCISM/WXdmDh1EgfI/AAAAAAAAHD4/F8Cjczp10IgVo6XRZN2M9QBiXGi64DeVQCLcBGAs/s1600/signal2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="640" height="267" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-umRTuKwCISM/WXdmDh1EgfI/AAAAAAAAHD4/F8Cjczp10IgVo6XRZN2M9QBiXGi64DeVQCLcBGAs/s400/signal2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, I am just enjoying playing in the fields right now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/07/thats-where-youll-find-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-923729085571734765Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:25:00 +00002017-04-22T23:26:01.888+00:00andrea josephdocumentary sketcherevent sketcherGeorge Saundersnovelwords and picturesthe world of ideas is also changing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S25SwbesH9w/WPuv554KxdI/AAAAAAAAHB8/RvoEf7srnes7cAkjN5DxIy6uEiIuUogEwCLcB/s1600/georgesaunders.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S25SwbesH9w/WPuv554KxdI/AAAAAAAAHB8/RvoEf7srnes7cAkjN5DxIy6uEiIuUogEwCLcB/s400/georgesaunders.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Recently I got to see (hear) author George Saunders, talk about his new book: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo">Lincoln In The Bardo</a>. I made&nbsp;this sketch whilst listening to him. It doesn't really look like him, but, oh well. I really&nbsp;enjoy this kind of work; capturing what people say and the whole combination of text&nbsp;and pictures thing.&nbsp;As part of my work as an illustrator&nbsp;I get to do this. I get to go into places where cameras may not be allowed (eg, prison) and capture what's going on, in sketches and words. It's hard to keep up with people talking so you end up with bits of the conversation. I like to think that the words I do&nbsp;catch are the important ones, but&nbsp;to be honest,&nbsp;I&nbsp;think that&nbsp;is a romantic view of it.&nbsp;More often than not, it's just picking up bits of prosaic conversation. But, I still like that. It's still significant, I guess.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hmmm, still a romantic view? Look, just r<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write">ead this instead</a>,&nbsp;it's more interesting than anything I can come up with. It's late and I should be in bed.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-world-of-ideas-is-also-changing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-8032540738612721384Sat, 08 Apr 2017 12:46:00 +00002017-04-08T12:46:13.866+00:00andrea josephdrawing peopledrawing tipspeopleurban sketchingshiny happy people (drawing)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KqxanojNnRI/WOjNxp3z-QI/AAAAAAAAHBA/96tCDhm58wEpkL34kvk1XdG21Vy53vQOgCLcB/s1600/blog-azuma.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KqxanojNnRI/WOjNxp3z-QI/AAAAAAAAHBA/96tCDhm58wEpkL34kvk1XdG21Vy53vQOgCLcB/s400/blog-azuma.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;Above is my favourite drawing related photo. Ever. I just love it. It was taken in a Korean restaurant in Manchester. I'd made the sketch, below,&nbsp;of the guys on the next table. They knew I was sketching them and were giggling throughout&nbsp;at the idea of being sketched. When I finished they asked the dreaded question; "can&nbsp;we see it?"<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SUgsDXfwtTc/WOjOKY1BetI/AAAAAAAAHBE/XSCskOOIuaUxHGzp7EL37awgGA6d81HPQCLcB/s1600/blog-azumadrawing.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SUgsDXfwtTc/WOjOKY1BetI/AAAAAAAAHBE/XSCskOOIuaUxHGzp7EL37awgGA6d81HPQCLcB/s400/blog-azumadrawing.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I say dreaded question, because when I speak to&nbsp;people who are just&nbsp;starting out&nbsp;drawing&nbsp;in public,&nbsp;and specifically drawing people, that's the number one question. Has anyone ever asked to see the drawing? And,&nbsp;the second question is&nbsp;WHAT if they don't like what you've drawn?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQbclGwPGwY/WOjOO5LhPYI/AAAAAAAAHBI/RPGAjvNMseEyEGGk3i2Jn5S-XmzVocz_gCLcB/s1600/blog-jamesons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQbclGwPGwY/WOjOO5LhPYI/AAAAAAAAHBI/RPGAjvNMseEyEGGk3i2Jn5S-XmzVocz_gCLcB/s400/blog-jamesons.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;And, you know, it's a totally valid question. One that I ask myself when I know I've been clocked drawing somebody. WHAT if they ask to see it? WHAT if they are offended? WHAT if they hate me for it? Because, lets face it, it is in a way a bit of an invasion of their privacy. They didn't ask to be sketched. I am always aware of that. If I wasn't in the illustration game, and somebody had made a sneaky sketch of me, how would I have liked it?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8_AtW_h2tEw/WOjOVgWfydI/AAAAAAAAHBM/jyMiG_iLp1kzXtltCg-JRLK27gd-8Qz9gCLcB/s1600/blog-tevin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8_AtW_h2tEw/WOjOVgWfydI/AAAAAAAAHBM/jyMiG_iLp1kzXtltCg-JRLK27gd-8Qz9gCLcB/s400/blog-tevin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>So, that's all the concern,&nbsp;paranoia and anxiety out there. It's real. Those thoughts exist. So how do you get over that? I don't have the answers, I'm afraid. I'm not sure there are answers. There may be times when people aren't exactly chuffed. Lily, below, didn't seem that impressed (but actually, she was just being a great model and sitting amazingly still for me). The guys below her&nbsp;haven't quite made their minds up. In fact, that was really great fun drawing them&nbsp;and even if their views and critiques were brutally honest, it didn't take away from it being&nbsp;too much&nbsp;fun to have missed out on.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-in5fqbdTMcs/WOjObnj5vRI/AAAAAAAAHBQ/uIRLZyDMBOUU9zvRT2qqFGeJ1Tf81zYhwCLcB/s1600/blog-lily.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-in5fqbdTMcs/WOjObnj5vRI/AAAAAAAAHBQ/uIRLZyDMBOUU9zvRT2qqFGeJ1Tf81zYhwCLcB/s400/blog-lily.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>&nbsp;A week or so ago, I went into a café where I'd been drawing quite a lot&nbsp;recently. I'd put one of the drawings, that&nbsp;I'd made&nbsp;there, online. The girl in the drawing was there telling her&nbsp;work colleague&nbsp;about it. As I began a new drawing I was aware that they were talking about me and what I was doing. I spent the whole time being really paranoid. They probably hated the drawing I'd put online. They probably don't want to be in this one. More than likely they were going to come up to me and tell me to stop it or to get out. I spent the whole time a&nbsp;anxious wreck.&nbsp;When I went to pay the girls said "we love your drawings, they're really beautiful". Bugger. And I just spent&nbsp;that time listening to my thoughts and wasted the opportunity to create something else they'd have loved.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6XRU6etAdv8/WOjOgORX_zI/AAAAAAAAHBU/em6blxDiSO4Z3MpEVdZQCa42QgdGmYH_wCLcB/s1600/blog-kimby2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6XRU6etAdv8/WOjOgORX_zI/AAAAAAAAHBU/em6blxDiSO4Z3MpEVdZQCa42QgdGmYH_wCLcB/s400/blog-kimby2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>Thing is,&nbsp;for most, the reactions to my drawings of people have just been pure delight. The comment I hear most, from those who have been drawn, is "I've never been drawn before". And, "can I take a photo of it?" Oh, and, "is it okay to make it my Facebook profile picture?" These cheeky monkeys below brought all their neighbourhood kids out to get drawn. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PkE4bz59DRM/WOjOjA73UjI/AAAAAAAAHBY/c08CQzIh-7IZTOSn6ao1JPk1tVnIDqZUgCLcB/s1600/blog-salford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="390" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PkE4bz59DRM/WOjOjA73UjI/AAAAAAAAHBY/c08CQzIh-7IZTOSn6ao1JPk1tVnIDqZUgCLcB/s400/blog-salford.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Seriously, you'll be surprised how positive the response is. As always, the only way to get more confident about it, is to practice. But, whether people are happy to sit for you, or if they don't even know they're posing for you...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H6mniUptXog/WOjOoyjNPeI/AAAAAAAAHBc/HvjLd83H3hMbb9CfbLZFFxFiT6v9KS7nQCLcB/s1600/blog-raven.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H6mniUptXog/WOjOoyjNPeI/AAAAAAAAHBc/HvjLd83H3hMbb9CfbLZFFxFiT6v9KS7nQCLcB/s400/blog-raven.jpg" width="397" /></a></div>&nbsp;...if you don't do it you'll miss out on some of the greatest reactions to your drawings.&nbsp;My advise (not that you've asked for it, and I'm no expert) is that it's&nbsp;worth the risk. Be brave it's worth it. For me, the photos in this post are proof of that. It's the best feeling when you get that person to pose with their drawing. THAT, to me, is the money shot.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhMefyzlu9c/WOjOrawC2uI/AAAAAAAAHBg/3UwZ2DV2ofodbjD_bkUtL2pKEA6d0awUQCLcB/s1600/blog-kate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UhMefyzlu9c/WOjOrawC2uI/AAAAAAAAHBg/3UwZ2DV2ofodbjD_bkUtL2pKEA6d0awUQCLcB/s400/blog-kate.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;And, I lied when I said the photo at the top was my all time favourite. This is...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uoa-vp93tCk/WOjOu8AH1HI/AAAAAAAAHBk/hbTAClGu9QA5Lay53ilHuh6wjbFVuiXKACLcB/s1600/blog-last.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uoa-vp93tCk/WOjOu8AH1HI/AAAAAAAAHBk/hbTAClGu9QA5Lay53ilHuh6wjbFVuiXKACLcB/s400/blog-last.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/04/shiny-happy-people-drawing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-3303606484220739446Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:44:00 +00002017-03-31T14:47:07.251+00:00andrea josephballpointballpoint artballpoint artistballpoint penbookcrowdfundingdrawing a line under it allhow to drawdrawing a line under it all<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MeVVVWoWSYQ/WN5CloAOuVI/AAAAAAAAHAY/2GRPC_Ps0vsaI91zF2FOvY-Xn38vkXlcwCLcB/s1600/converse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MeVVVWoWSYQ/WN5CloAOuVI/AAAAAAAAHAY/2GRPC_Ps0vsaI91zF2FOvY-Xn38vkXlcwCLcB/s400/converse.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hey, thanks for stopping by. I wonder if you could help me out with some advise on a couple of things?&nbsp;For some time now&nbsp;I've been thinking about creating a book about drawing with ballpoint pens. There are a few reasons&nbsp;I want to do&nbsp;this. Firstly, it's what I'm always asked about and associated with; the ballpoint work. Secondly, I'm really done with drawing with ballpoints. I have been for some time, so it would be killing two birds with one stone. I get to answer all those questions, whilst drawing a line under it all for myself. It's not that I don't like the work, I really do, and when I see some of it, after a break, I feel proud of it. But, I just can't work in that way any more. I am more about getting the results quicker these days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Another reason&nbsp;I've been considering&nbsp;a book&nbsp;is&nbsp;that&nbsp;a couple of zines, from&nbsp;my How To Draw (With a Ballpoint Pen) series, have sold out and are now out of print. I love that collection and I'd like to gather these together, along with a load of work that&nbsp;I&nbsp;produced for a fourth ballpoint zine that didn't get printed. All of that, plus a&nbsp;selection of my favourite ballpoint drawings,&nbsp;and some thoughts and techniques about using the pens, would make a pretty&nbsp;good book I reckon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EEnxL7eIoMI/WN5CpzbilsI/AAAAAAAAHAc/GY5TYKqmBMYM7zDRasTEoZgUOHVr8m-XQCLcB/s1600/nut.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EEnxL7eIoMI/WN5CpzbilsI/AAAAAAAAHAc/GY5TYKqmBMYM7zDRasTEoZgUOHVr8m-XQCLcB/s400/nut.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, I am in no position to fund this book.&nbsp;So, this is what I wanted to ask</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a) does anyone have any experience of crowdfunding a project or book? How did you find it? Would you recommend&nbsp;a crowdfunding site (it would need to be one in the UK)?&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">b) Do you think there would be a market for such a book? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks, in advance, for your response.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/163290695/new-zine-how-to-draw-like-a-barmpot">How To Draw Like a Barmpot</a> and&nbsp;is available <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AndreaJoseph">HERE</a>. As is my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/453129660/sale-converse-ballpoint-illustration">Converse print</a>, the drawing at the&nbsp;top of this post, which is currently on sale. </div><br />http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/03/drawing-line-under-it-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-3476837415811868903Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:55:00 +00002017-03-16T18:17:28.890+00:00andrea josephflash fictiongraphic novelhand letteringhandwrittenillustrationlettersmysteryTeddyThe Lettersthe letters seriesThe Letters <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UfmdawQg6Cc/WMp22i0RP4I/AAAAAAAAG_s/w7K--qUju9wG-GUIGNSt0s5hsLRcc3BIgCLcB/s1600/teddy5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UfmdawQg6Cc/WMp22i0RP4I/AAAAAAAAG_s/w7K--qUju9wG-GUIGNSt0s5hsLRcc3BIgCLcB/s400/teddy5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am brimming over with creative ideas right now. Here's another one that I'm bringing to life. I have no idea if it'll work but I'm going to give it a shot. 'Teddy' is the first in a series of letters, each one is a little piece of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction">flash fiction</a>.&nbsp;But, this is flash fiction graphic novel style. Yes, (I've just realised that) I've created a whole new genre.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-FzyEZGlKo/WMp262tJrFI/AAAAAAAAG_w/7T-pzjJoPVAUkBgnfdHYRrDo8AmPWu5wACLcB/s1600/teddy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-FzyEZGlKo/WMp262tJrFI/AAAAAAAAG_w/7T-pzjJoPVAUkBgnfdHYRrDo8AmPWu5wACLcB/s400/teddy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The thing that excites me about this idea is (hopefully) how it will unfold in front of me. Now, I am pretty sure that this is not the correct way to go about writing a story, but, I've been creating stories in this way for a couple of years in my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drinkanddrawwithandreajoseph/">Drink &amp; Draw series</a>. In these events, through models, poses&nbsp;and props, I tell a story for sketchers to draw. These stories always unfold,&nbsp;change and take unexpected twists&nbsp;as each model brings their own thing to it, plus poses may need to be cut, on the night, because of timing, that kind of thing. The changes then inform what happens in the next episode.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MkQZfvI5BwU/WMp2-lgj_dI/AAAAAAAAG_0/ZjJX3O_-BgcPeWoVBO6Z1eZ5sJSs-ewSACLcB/s1600/teddy2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="391" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MkQZfvI5BwU/WMp2-lgj_dI/AAAAAAAAG_0/ZjJX3O_-BgcPeWoVBO6Z1eZ5sJSs-ewSACLcB/s400/teddy2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I recently read the <a href="http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/stephen-kings-top-20-rules-for-writers.html">Stephen King book 'On Writing'</a>, in which he described how a story should take you on the journey, rather than the other way around. I completely relate to that, it is actually the way I used to build my big drawings too. I'd let them tell me what to do next. I love the idea that a story has it's own life and you're just there to get it on paper. It would be a dull process if it wasn't that way, I think.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IPf19OQj9JI/WMp3B59pUyI/AAAAAAAAG_4/R9KiIFm0a2khFtVfLdfBDFfavlnXxFrOQCLcB/s1600/teddy1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IPf19OQj9JI/WMp3B59pUyI/AAAAAAAAG_4/R9KiIFm0a2khFtVfLdfBDFfavlnXxFrOQCLcB/s400/teddy1.jpg" width="352" /></a></div>Now I'm not sure he'd recommend putting your first bit of the story out there before anything else has been written, but I'm experimenting here.&nbsp;During the time I was creating this letter all sorts of ideas about who the letter was from and who it was too came up. I think I always knew these characters but during this process I got to know them a lot&nbsp;better.&nbsp;And so,&nbsp;the next letter kind of wrote itself.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3c3b_d6EZ0/WMp3FaM6XpI/AAAAAAAAHAA/vU2RsvPVijMaB9Ct_-2Bu_hjbvadzyLlACEw/s1600/teddy3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="396" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q3c3b_d6EZ0/WMp3FaM6XpI/AAAAAAAAHAA/vU2RsvPVijMaB9Ct_-2Bu_hjbvadzyLlACEw/s400/teddy3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway, enough talk. 'Teddy' is available <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/518674663/illustrated-letter-by-andrea-joseph?ref=shop_home_active_2">HERE</a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thanks for calling by my blog.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-letters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-872210286436882139Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:29:00 +00002017-03-10T13:57:06.855+00:00andreaandrea josephEtsyetsysellerNorthern Quarter sketcherUrban Sketcherson double identities and stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h-26M6LzRO4/WLwQ5X1bZAI/AAAAAAAAG-4/U1L1XypfSpUYiyDLq7P0kQdpVjQZAtxrgCLcB/s1600/prints-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h-26M6LzRO4/WLwQ5X1bZAI/AAAAAAAAG-4/U1L1XypfSpUYiyDLq7P0kQdpVjQZAtxrgCLcB/s400/prints-blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Here's something I've been struggling with recently, well, struggling is probably too<b> </b>strong a word. Here's something I've&nbsp;thinking about. It's this kind of double identity I have going on. When it comes to my business, that is. I've just had some lush new&nbsp;art prints (above) created of my new drawings of buildings. Theyre quality art prints and cost a pretty penny to&nbsp;get made.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-16WWly5we8g/WLwRPk5z2-I/AAAAAAAAG-8/iYpIsm7ks0UJBZ1qsPMbhpebAyjdJxSmQCLcB/s1600/pooping-bird.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-16WWly5we8g/WLwRPk5z2-I/AAAAAAAAG-8/iYpIsm7ks0UJBZ1qsPMbhpebAyjdJxSmQCLcB/s400/pooping-bird.jpg" width="321" /></a></div>Now, I also have another set of&nbsp;products that I sell. This is my merchandise. This is part of my income. Quite a big chunk of my very small income to be honest. Basically, I need to sell this stuff. It includes my cards, badges and other cute little bits and bobs. The smaller cheaper items that people buy without thinking too much about cost. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X5l5ExUCh7I/WLwRSJpPJGI/AAAAAAAAG_A/T93ixuQpr3oyO_KSoygItaiWacl0cb3LACLcB/s1600/birdcards.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X5l5ExUCh7I/WLwRSJpPJGI/AAAAAAAAG_A/T93ixuQpr3oyO_KSoygItaiWacl0cb3LACLcB/s400/birdcards.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I take a lot of time and pride over making these things. I don't ever want to put anything out there, whether it's lower or higher cost, that isn't a lovely product. I love these little things even though they're hugely time consuming and the return is small. But, as I said, they bring in a much needed wage.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Zoz3xlgekE/WLwRbOP-xPI/AAAAAAAAG_E/yQupQ2g4L2sBlTPfPd80SYaM4zX3eEyXgCLcB/s1600/me-drawing-fungi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Zoz3xlgekE/WLwRbOP-xPI/AAAAAAAAG_E/yQupQ2g4L2sBlTPfPd80SYaM4zX3eEyXgCLcB/s400/me-drawing-fungi.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>(photo by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/robwhitrowphoto/">Rob Whitrow</a>)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But here's the thing I've been thinking about; do these products take away from my more serious (or, at least,&nbsp;the stuff I'm more serious about) work? Do they devalue the other work, eg, my buildings etc?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V7v4K3oCSF0/WLwRcobVtaI/AAAAAAAAG_I/wzCylUTLYnEjGl3xuGODdVG7BNnX_L8NwCLcB/s1600/24-watts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V7v4K3oCSF0/WLwRcobVtaI/AAAAAAAAG_I/wzCylUTLYnEjGl3xuGODdVG7BNnX_L8NwCLcB/s400/24-watts.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>And, more to the point, should I separate the business? Should I have a shop for my merchandise and a shop for my other artwork? I have already started doing that in various places, for example on Instagram I have created a separate&nbsp;account as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/northernquartersketcher/">@northernquartersketcher</a> and on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/NQsketcher">@NQsketcher</a>. And, actually, I feel especially on Instagram that is working for me.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N82HJkphBbM/WLwRjGSZ_iI/AAAAAAAAG_M/3oSwc4JwWIo1H-eHukdNJKn04qZ2BsqiACLcB/s1600/lovecats2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-N82HJkphBbM/WLwRjGSZ_iI/AAAAAAAAG_M/3oSwc4JwWIo1H-eHukdNJKn04qZ2BsqiACLcB/s400/lovecats2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Thing is, I can't totally separate these two sides of my work as they both are MY work.&nbsp;And, over the past decade or more,&nbsp;I have built up a following and lots of those people become regular customers (and I love and appreciate&nbsp;them), so if I were to separate the businesses then will I lose people along the way? Will it just be loads more work? Can you sell high quality high priced art prints alongside Thug Cats badge cards??? So many questions.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pSnUeorC8kE/WLwRn58WzVI/AAAAAAAAG_Q/eL7qcSLa2vEeX5VCN_xKdr_ozopALhYmQCLcB/s1600/thug-cats.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pSnUeorC8kE/WLwRn58WzVI/AAAAAAAAG_Q/eL7qcSLa2vEeX5VCN_xKdr_ozopALhYmQCLcB/s400/thug-cats.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hmmm, very interested to hear your thoughts, folks. Maybe you've been through this before|? In the meantime, I'll keep on creating.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9FIpXHVua4g/WLwRuMf_acI/AAAAAAAAG_U/KpCeyIMNNKcR6zGZ2PyhwyxoqaIc7KDRwCLcB/s1600/paramount-blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9FIpXHVua4g/WLwRuMf_acI/AAAAAAAAG_U/KpCeyIMNNKcR6zGZ2PyhwyxoqaIc7KDRwCLcB/s400/paramount-blog.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><br />http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/03/heres-something-ive-been-struggling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-1029133744826813630Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:21:00 +00002017-02-27T18:23:11.100+00:00#theredcaseandrea josephcreative writingfiction writingillustrationminiatureprojectwriting promptsThe Red Case<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-veJarL_o3Pc/WLRm2Vdk-8I/AAAAAAAAG94/RGf9OMorGrk4ZT6clvNQyWDw-oGzJcnVQCLcB/s1600/case-rose.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-veJarL_o3Pc/WLRm2Vdk-8I/AAAAAAAAG94/RGf9OMorGrk4ZT6clvNQyWDw-oGzJcnVQCLcB/s400/case-rose.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;In my last post I mentioned about my new obsession; creative writing. It's not really that&nbsp;new. Well, the writing bit may be,&nbsp;but my passion in life&nbsp;is&nbsp;story telling. It always has been. Over the last couple of years I've put a lot into that particular area of my creativity. Running workshops and events, for sketchers, that involve building stories.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OSHEJRu0HvI/WLRm8i7CdNI/AAAAAAAAG98/pTGdYCsN9tMxz8rCMvS6plQoCxWeruFWgCLcB/s1600/case-prototype.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OSHEJRu0HvI/WLRm8i7CdNI/AAAAAAAAG98/pTGdYCsN9tMxz8rCMvS6plQoCxWeruFWgCLcB/s400/case-prototype.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of those stories was called The Red Case.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wg-LnddzakM/WLRnBKhmteI/AAAAAAAAG-A/Uk_mEIB6AT8hcNjWsjl1Fi3VdC5IAM5zgCLcB/s1600/case-cutting.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wg-LnddzakM/WLRnBKhmteI/AAAAAAAAG-A/Uk_mEIB6AT8hcNjWsjl1Fi3VdC5IAM5zgCLcB/s400/case-cutting.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;And, I've had this idea, born out of that story, for making a little case full of writing prompts (I just didn't know that they were called prompts back then. I do now, that I've been on a creative writing course) for a long long time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T_8DNO3tGBY/WLRnDH8K9fI/AAAAAAAAG-E/c2RCeu_wXX4WjLtm8Ba0peHSU9jsw6erQCLcB/s1600/cases.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T_8DNO3tGBY/WLRnDH8K9fI/AAAAAAAAG-E/c2RCeu_wXX4WjLtm8Ba0peHSU9jsw6erQCLcB/s400/cases.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;On Saturday I was at Sheffield Zine Fest peddling my wares. As always I need to have a deadline to make any of my ideas come to fruition. You know how it is, right? So I spent the&nbsp;days leading up to it building a production line of little red cases.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0vFpte3b3A8/WLRnKIzrObI/AAAAAAAAG-I/YVnnZjc-ZZ0wJc379Gf7hKrBoiBaCOJEACLcB/s1600/case-rose1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0vFpte3b3A8/WLRnKIzrObI/AAAAAAAAG-I/YVnnZjc-ZZ0wJc379Gf7hKrBoiBaCOJEACLcB/s400/case-rose1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;And, after lots of drawing, cutting, printing, gluing and packing, here they are.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xj_w-guQVbU/WLRnNUAliTI/AAAAAAAAG-M/ATqU5HsNiMw5ehveUWLa9MguJ4wRwhlHACLcB/s1600/case-letter2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xj_w-guQVbU/WLRnNUAliTI/AAAAAAAAG-M/ATqU5HsNiMw5ehveUWLa9MguJ4wRwhlHACLcB/s400/case-letter2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Little handmade red cases, each containing eight handmade illustrated cards all with characters on the other side (I can't show you them as it'll make your stories less spontaneous), and a little handwritten letter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QQiNrsOxHGU/WLRnTiReYsI/AAAAAAAAG-Q/KA-d6cx8E_IeAsLNuopO-vU2MTwIbgs1gCLcB/s1600/case-instructions.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="375" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QQiNrsOxHGU/WLRnTiReYsI/AAAAAAAAG-Q/KA-d6cx8E_IeAsLNuopO-vU2MTwIbgs1gCLcB/s400/case-instructions.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;All ready to be mailed out with instructions and in a little gift box.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CiNzsrCrr-c/WLRnXVNwkHI/AAAAAAAAG-U/7ahdiUbl2hUOTzbj1QIWmbnJy5HbasTvQCLcB/s1600/case%2B.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CiNzsrCrr-c/WLRnXVNwkHI/AAAAAAAAG-U/7ahdiUbl2hUOTzbj1QIWmbnJy5HbasTvQCLcB/s400/case%2B.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;The idea is to see how many different stories people can come up with from the same bunch of characters, a letter and a red case. WHAT is in there? Well, that's up to you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The Red Case is now available in my Etsy shop right <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AndreaJoseph">HERE</a>. </div><br />http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-red-case.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-2714079724031780532Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:33:00 +00002017-02-10T13:07:50.783+00:00andrea josephcreative writinggraphic novelillustrationillustrator for hirestorytellingthese dreams of you<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X3o47wDdkEA/WJy1ZPDNFrI/AAAAAAAAG8c/CyQcb4blcJcGMSwuhy2Or7ibx1z7pnLawCLcB/s1600/cafe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X3o47wDdkEA/WJy1ZPDNFrI/AAAAAAAAG8c/CyQcb4blcJcGMSwuhy2Or7ibx1z7pnLawCLcB/s400/cafe.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A little while ago I signed up to a Creative Writing&nbsp;class. It was a course about creating short stories.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ab5QduXmJU0/WJy1pQVFwrI/AAAAAAAAG8g/dR7YPM7M8DM4hbX7CwxsRb3XjVKRFiyjQCLcB/s1600/keyhole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="326" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ab5QduXmJU0/WJy1pQVFwrI/AAAAAAAAG8g/dR7YPM7M8DM4hbX7CwxsRb3XjVKRFiyjQCLcB/s400/keyhole.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">The reason I took the course was to give me a push with a graphic novel that I've had hanging around,&nbsp;in various sketchbooks, for a few years. Also I was really interested in learning some of the tools for building stories as I felt they could be transferred to the graphic novel. The same rules must apply, right? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IkxrwQORg_k/WJy2AQrC6EI/AAAAAAAAG8s/R6rq5kt-ynAhxucL-a_s9gGxTjO5VuMKwCLcB/s1600/tomas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IkxrwQORg_k/WJy2AQrC6EI/AAAAAAAAG8s/R6rq5kt-ynAhxucL-a_s9gGxTjO5VuMKwCLcB/s400/tomas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Plus, I wanted a new challenge.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xsxajah6nVo/WJy153VglcI/AAAAAAAAG8k/zEbE8sY0nWgepQHNQ1rYAKE0KOnXY8PtQCLcB/s1600/letter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xsxajah6nVo/WJy153VglcI/AAAAAAAAG8k/zEbE8sY0nWgepQHNQ1rYAKE0KOnXY8PtQCLcB/s400/letter.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Well, it was all that and more. I have loved every minute of it. In fact, I've&nbsp;become a little obsessed. I can't stop writing and the main character,&nbsp;from my graphic novel, has been following me around wherever I go. I've been thinking about her in almost everything I do and wondering whether she would do the same thing, spend time with the same people, like my favourite coffee shop (she would).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6MOi_3Js4cs/WJy16I-b6HI/AAAAAAAAG8o/3DegoOpr2oAdvv4UZPdQ6vdD0o4pJS3kgCLcB/s1600/letter%2Bto%2Bedward.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6MOi_3Js4cs/WJy16I-b6HI/AAAAAAAAG8o/3DegoOpr2oAdvv4UZPdQ6vdD0o4pJS3kgCLcB/s400/letter%2Bto%2Bedward.jpg" width="307" /></a></div>Now I'm finding that I have to divide my time, not&nbsp;just between myself and her, but also between writing and drawing.&nbsp;All of those times&nbsp;when I'd normally take the opportunity to sketch are now writing&nbsp;opportunities too. My graphic novel originally, in my head, had been all pictures. No words. But, after the course I've changed my mind and I want to get some&nbsp;text in there somehow. I want her voice to be heard. I'm sure I can manage that. See above.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fvnYhGhmXcs/WJy2DOxciKI/AAAAAAAAG8w/4ZZF0O3ku_cRKMVC5MD5WZ_RpYZGVXdrgCLcB/s1600/cafe2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fvnYhGhmXcs/WJy2DOxciKI/AAAAAAAAG8w/4ZZF0O3ku_cRKMVC5MD5WZ_RpYZGVXdrgCLcB/s400/cafe2.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>I like to think that this is the push I needed. One way or another I will have to finish this book. Because, whilst I love Marci,&nbsp;I want my own&nbsp;life back!http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/02/these-dreams-of-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-6518308768605427453Sun, 01 Jan 2017 23:06:00 +00002017-01-01T23:10:49.237+00:00AJandrea josephNorthern Quarter sketchersecret sketchersketchbookurban sketchingon not looking a gift horse in the mouth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u71ydFPGFB4/WGlaTYNVpxI/AAAAAAAAG6o/0fYKRagCznEA2PEqBlkP1UJXy4Uvc6lVgCLcB/s1600/phones1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u71ydFPGFB4/WGlaTYNVpxI/AAAAAAAAG6o/0fYKRagCznEA2PEqBlkP1UJXy4Uvc6lVgCLcB/s400/phones1.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">What did we do before&nbsp;phones? I mean mobile phones. And laptops. And&nbsp;tablets.&nbsp;How did&nbsp;we manage?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HFKbYLRcmCg/WGlacZ8CrqI/AAAAAAAAG6s/L9sSLUM_5M8mJg8FuBeEmHHwT8SHYmWYQCLcB/s1600/phones2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HFKbYLRcmCg/WGlacZ8CrqI/AAAAAAAAG6s/L9sSLUM_5M8mJg8FuBeEmHHwT8SHYmWYQCLcB/s400/phones2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Our lives were so much more difficult. Everything was so much harder. Just think about how much easier phones, tablets, laptops, notebooks have made our jobs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMyEpTH86vk/WGmFFZ1WXCI/AAAAAAAAG68/pQZsXDHaTvw-b8cWBBi-fxUfh7OyO9lrQCLcB/s1600/phones3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DMyEpTH86vk/WGmFFZ1WXCI/AAAAAAAAG68/pQZsXDHaTvw-b8cWBBi-fxUfh7OyO9lrQCLcB/s400/phones3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I cannot remember what sitting in a coffee shop was like before there were phones, laptops, notebooks. Although, actually, coffee shops didn't exist back then either. Not in this country anyway. But I can't remember what it was like sitting in cafes and greasy spoons before phones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mbgl-pGlaL0/WGmFwXDD7BI/AAAAAAAAG7A/m2Y8n2IvHlQi88hYNi_8a7q9UZAZty-2wCLcB/s1600/phones4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="350" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mbgl-pGlaL0/WGmFwXDD7BI/AAAAAAAAG7A/m2Y8n2IvHlQi88hYNi_8a7q9UZAZty-2wCLcB/s400/phones4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or on a bus stop. Or on a train. What did we do?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KKNCg-P5mNY/WGmGBHwtC5I/AAAAAAAAG7E/HSLYteHLfjw7QHL8H5_eZHncUj7Ofgc5QCLcB/s1600/phones5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KKNCg-P5mNY/WGmGBHwtC5I/AAAAAAAAG7E/HSLYteHLfjw7QHL8H5_eZHncUj7Ofgc5QCLcB/s400/phones5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can't remember. Obviously,&nbsp;we'd have been much more self conscious. Exposed even. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JauVnXzoSfs/WGmGYRwa7QI/AAAAAAAAG7M/nOUr7ZLvu3E4UFDPuD35eUSYzHK9aCz-ACLcB/s1600/phones6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JauVnXzoSfs/WGmGYRwa7QI/AAAAAAAAG7M/nOUr7ZLvu3E4UFDPuD35eUSYzHK9aCz-ACLcB/s400/phones6.jpg" width="331" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But now, that's all so different. Now everyone is on a device and everyone around them blends into obscurity. It's great.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a7cviy6j1VU/WGmGys9iOBI/AAAAAAAAG7U/KdUNJpb7uQQzZqipI-pmtqYS6hCdsWiZACLcB/s1600/phones10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a7cviy6j1VU/WGmGys9iOBI/AAAAAAAAG7U/KdUNJpb7uQQzZqipI-pmtqYS6hCdsWiZACLcB/s400/phones10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is the greatest gift. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jh04iPHMKPU/WGmHCf-5VUI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/44SjsaYdiL8lL0-3wcNdbjzWPiZ8bAszwCLcB/s1600/phones7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jh04iPHMKPU/WGmHCf-5VUI/AAAAAAAAG7Y/44SjsaYdiL8lL0-3wcNdbjzWPiZ8bAszwCLcB/s400/phones7.jpg" width="343" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Really, technology is&nbsp;a complete&nbsp;gift to a sketcher.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JzgDLjVeJc4/WGmHV_yG6GI/AAAAAAAAG7c/YonJNucj1TkJ9H8Y1q9hRutWxntIjxSRACLcB/s1600/phones8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JzgDLjVeJc4/WGmHV_yG6GI/AAAAAAAAG7c/YonJNucj1TkJ9H8Y1q9hRutWxntIjxSRACLcB/s400/phones8.jpg" width="343" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">For now we have models on hand. Everywhere you look. Still, focused models. Who never look up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AhwZGWdLpJU/WGmIghoSmyI/AAAAAAAAG7s/xMndrZBtnfgs-gYPL2ZMdkFYQ8Qr6kLUwCLcB/s1600/phones9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AhwZGWdLpJU/WGmIghoSmyI/AAAAAAAAG7s/xMndrZBtnfgs-gYPL2ZMdkFYQ8Qr6kLUwCLcB/s400/phones9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Who are so caught up in their Facebook/Twitter/Instagram feeds that they never move. So, yeah, how did we manage before phones? There is, however, one downside...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_iNtiuIEz3c/WGmI-xq3tEI/AAAAAAAAG7w/s6a_5grQhiE24my67i6IYpT5rR6co7brgCLcB/s1600/boring.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_iNtiuIEz3c/WGmI-xq3tEI/AAAAAAAAG7w/s6a_5grQhiE24my67i6IYpT5rR6co7brgCLcB/s400/boring.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*These are a tiny selection of sketches that I've made of people on phones, tablets, laptops, whathaveyou. Seriously, I've millions*</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2017/01/on-not-looking-gift-horse-in-mouth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-1026649247180312146Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:20:00 +00002016-10-27T12:22:45.865+00:00#inktoberandrea josephAndrea Joseph drawingscafé drawingink drawingManchesterNorthern Quarter sketcherUrban Sketchersi've seen that road before<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aXyTK_MU_zM/WA_Rcv3sEgI/AAAAAAAAG3E/AxIDvL6hSc8/s640/blogger-image--1736809258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aXyTK_MU_zM/WA_Rcv3sEgI/AAAAAAAAG3E/AxIDvL6hSc8/s400/blogger-image--1736809258.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is one of my favourite recent drawings (or urban sketches as they now have to be called). I made this at the end of a long day. I thought I was all drawn out, but&nbsp;I&nbsp;found a window seat&nbsp;in a café directly across the road from this lovely pink building.</div><div><br /></div><div>A couple of weeks ago, <a href="http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/tonight-streets-are-ours.html">I&nbsp;blogged about&nbsp;how much my work has changed</a>&nbsp;and in the comments somebody (another Andrea) said "<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;">There's a certain element to your style - organicness (? if that's even a word) which does link it all (old and new work)&nbsp;together." I liked hearing that.&nbsp;From the very beginning, and all of the drawings that I made came from an authentic place, and even though I wouldn't want to - couldn't even -&nbsp;draw in that way anymore, it still is very much part of me and my work. I wouldn't want to deny it or try to erase it. So it pleases me to know that others can see that link. I do.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJ1HlNqtpFg/WA_RaGK55mI/AAAAAAAAG3A/d5XjZiXKELo/s640/blogger-image-534467669.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ZJ1HlNqtpFg/WA_RaGK55mI/AAAAAAAAG3A/d5XjZiXKELo/s400/blogger-image-534467669.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;">I think then, and now, I was always trying to achieve the same thing; I've always been&nbsp;trying to make the drawings that I would have loved as a kid. The kind of drawing that would have made the young me want to draw. That's always my in my mind. Well maybe not my mind, I'm not consciously thinking about it, but that aim is somewhere inside me.&nbsp;I think that this drawing is a favourite of mine because, I reckon, the young me would have loved it.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;"></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;">Somebody also recently said to me "there is no such thing as art it's all nostalgia". It's quite a bold and perhaps controversial statement. It's something I've thought about a lot since hearing it. I think I&nbsp;agree.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2016/10/ive-seen-that-road-before.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-3958906606539971969Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:16:00 +00002016-10-22T19:20:21.170+00:00#inktoberAJandrea josephinktober2016ManchesterNorthern Quartersketcherstep by stepUrban Sketchersurban sketchinghow to make an urban sketch in ten easy steps<b>How to make an Urban Sketch (in the North of England in Autumn (i.e. it's cold)) in 10 easy steps</b>;<br /><br />(Optional step; Turn up to the location and realise you've brought all your inks but no pen. No really&nbsp;(I told you I was a rubbish urban sketcher). Go buy pens)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DvI9hEqbBds/WAunbjBYH9I/AAAAAAAAG2k/wc-6CZW43PE/s640/blogger-image--1999955104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DvI9hEqbBds/WAunbjBYH9I/AAAAAAAAG2k/wc-6CZW43PE/s400/blogger-image--1999955104.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 1. Find a coffee shop with a window seat and a view<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OUtRSc8ObNg/WAunZs_gfFI/AAAAAAAAG2g/uezdOZLn10Q/s640/blogger-image--890129606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OUtRSc8ObNg/WAunZs_gfFI/AAAAAAAAG2g/uezdOZLn10Q/s400/blogger-image--890129606.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 2. Have a coffee and sandwich. This&nbsp;is&nbsp;one of the more&nbsp;complicated steps; I'm in the Northern Quarter, of Manchester, so will have to decide between ten different coffee beans, made in fifteen different ways, then there's the bread...sour dough, brioche, rye....<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a0GvTcfM9No/WAukgnCA_tI/AAAAAAAAG2Q/gAz-CH-ApCw/s640/blogger-image--1060424918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a0GvTcfM9No/WAukgnCA_tI/AAAAAAAAG2Q/gAz-CH-ApCw/s400/blogger-image--1060424918.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 3. Make a mess of the table<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_Ee2x5bo17w/WAukVcbqHOI/AAAAAAAAG2E/apoXkCtjg1A/s640/blogger-image--773085462.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_Ee2x5bo17w/WAukVcbqHOI/AAAAAAAAG2E/apoXkCtjg1A/s400/blogger-image--773085462.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Step 4. Ah shit. Why did I put colour on it?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CQPHXl_cDCs/WAukjUKLzEI/AAAAAAAAG2U/L5VTjRlgc_Y/s640/blogger-image-2061977562.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CQPHXl_cDCs/WAukjUKLzEI/AAAAAAAAG2U/L5VTjRlgc_Y/s400/blogger-image-2061977562.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 5. Have another coffee. And a Danish pastry. Try to hide the mess you've made of the table when they bring it over.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xBxypdshlLM/WAuneEgDLYI/AAAAAAAAG2o/WBHXH9ia3Hc/s640/blogger-image--1407315524.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xBxypdshlLM/WAuneEgDLYI/AAAAAAAAG2o/WBHXH9ia3Hc/s400/blogger-image--1407315524.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 6. Add lettering to try to take away the focus from the awful colour work<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xtcRJe0xbhM/WAungqcHzVI/AAAAAAAAG2s/IRmn4HQfubE/s640/blogger-image-1502927359.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xtcRJe0xbhM/WAungqcHzVI/AAAAAAAAG2s/IRmn4HQfubE/s400/blogger-image-1502927359.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 7. Pigeons<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LiYYnlq94ek/WAukdo5mEII/AAAAAAAAG2M/aC7uci_PSac/s640/blogger-image-585716798.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LiYYnlq94ek/WAukdo5mEII/AAAAAAAAG2M/aC7uci_PSac/s400/blogger-image-585716798.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 8. Scrub the table then go outside and take the obligatory out of focus urban sketcher&nbsp;photo, whilst holding your book in front of the building with one hand and trying to take photo with the other hand whilst worrying that somebody is going to snatch your phone.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0wayIdRYiLQ/WAukZuA4fnI/AAAAAAAAG2I/6FDdthwvjkI/s640/blogger-image-815742279.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0wayIdRYiLQ/WAukZuA4fnI/AAAAAAAAG2I/6FDdthwvjkI/s400/blogger-image-815742279.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Step 9. When all else fails go shopping<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VuDsagW8kQU/WAukRmGjyRI/AAAAAAAAG2A/TzZI8egAccs/s640/blogger-image-1347348574.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="279" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VuDsagW8kQU/WAukRmGjyRI/AAAAAAAAG2A/TzZI8egAccs/s400/blogger-image-1347348574.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Step 10. Reassess at home over a cup of tea. Followed by either throwing it in the bin or feeling a little bit smug.</div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-to-make-urban-sketch-in-ten-easy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-4548653971111824441Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:24:00 +00002016-10-18T19:34:28.294+00:00ManchesterManchester Urban Sketchersthe Midland HotelUrban Sketchersurban sketchingyou're like Manchester, you've got Strange Ways<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-87kigLxTwFQ/WASrQjNc9AI/AAAAAAAAG1I/JHO7re3gmewoVdA6PGsOabESgO3MdqiAwCEw/s1600/midland-all.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-87kigLxTwFQ/WASrQjNc9AI/AAAAAAAAG1I/JHO7re3gmewoVdA6PGsOabESgO3MdqiAwCEw/s400/midland-all.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is the drawing that I made&nbsp;with all the tools that I took out with me in my last blog post. Well, I say 'all of the tools' but obviously I just mean one pen, one bottle of ink and one sketchbook. I must say I was overwhelmed by the response to that post, and to how many people related. I assumed it was just me. It's a comfort to know&nbsp;I'm not alone. Perhaps we could set up a support group?</div><div style="text-align: center;">Anyway as I said, this was the drawing I made on that day. The sketchbook is really difficult to photograph as it's&nbsp;so long. So here's the top, middle and bottom, of the Midland Hotel, Manchester,&nbsp;in bite size chunks. If I'm honest, it's really quite difficult to draw in too.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8kcLCnLP7gc/WASwfsicQfI/AAAAAAAAG1U/nXXma25S3Moy9KeKW0_USxRHs1VuakTzgCLcB/s1600/midland-tops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8kcLCnLP7gc/WASwfsicQfI/AAAAAAAAG1U/nXXma25S3Moy9KeKW0_USxRHs1VuakTzgCLcB/s400/midland-tops.jpg" width="327" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Top</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dm5UKUqXXnQ/WASwisxCAmI/AAAAAAAAG1Y/UqWs74RyjjInVEF7V9QD905u71M4hoaEwCLcB/s1600/midland-middle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dm5UKUqXXnQ/WASwisxCAmI/AAAAAAAAG1Y/UqWs74RyjjInVEF7V9QD905u71M4hoaEwCLcB/s320/midland-middle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Middle</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iBK91jSaQWo/WASwlF9MErI/AAAAAAAAG1c/_5YOnMRoNmEK8SDdPlcykxEwPSO37fJ3gCLcB/s1600/midland-top.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iBK91jSaQWo/WASwlF9MErI/AAAAAAAAG1c/_5YOnMRoNmEK8SDdPlcykxEwPSO37fJ3gCLcB/s320/midland-top.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bottom</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made this drawing while out with Manchester Urban Sketchers. It's a building I love. A big ornate hotel in the city. It has everything I like to draw. It's a strange thing, I'd say that Modernism and even Brutalism is possibly my favourite style of architecture. But, I just cannot draw it. I have no desire to draw it. When it comes to drawing I want the exact opposite. I want twirls galore. The Midland has that.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I made the drawing&nbsp;in around two hours on a bench across the road from the hotel. It's getting freezing out there on the streets now, so I retired to the library to finish it off. I'm guessing that with winter approaching a whole new set of 'things to take on a sketchcrawl' are about to trouble me. I should just give in and drag a trolley around.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xd3zk9jkfCI/WASrMRE19kI/AAAAAAAAG1I/GaLF25618EMMZmHQ5YvoYA--MbBVIZtsgCEw/s1600/midland-hotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xd3zk9jkfCI/WASrMRE19kI/AAAAAAAAG1I/GaLF25618EMMZmHQ5YvoYA--MbBVIZtsgCEw/s400/midland-hotel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And in case evidence is needed as to quite how awkward this book is, here we are at the end of the session, look I can't even hold it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k0PEactTU-o/WAS4nMFdx1I/AAAAAAAAG1s/GWcCmQGdQfAuxuGQ1XeGp4sS_Sann7cEQCEw/s1600/urban-sketch-manc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k0PEactTU-o/WAS4nMFdx1I/AAAAAAAAG1s/GWcCmQGdQfAuxuGQ1XeGp4sS_Sann7cEQCEw/s400/urban-sketch-manc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2016/10/youre-like-manchester-youve-got-strange.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34905653.post-1399744475986318651Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:14:00 +00002016-10-14T15:17:19.761+00:00andrea josephartists toolspensUrban Sketchersurban sketchingwhy I make a rubbish urban sketcher<div style="text-align: center;">Today, for once, I am going to travel light. I'm going monotone so all I need is a black pen. Maybe two. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mcoNGMnaeDg/WADvB_BlWEI/AAAAAAAAG0I/oWfDpmKZRK45PTg4XfGzcRgb69bV4AiQwCLcB/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="387" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mcoNGMnaeDg/WADvB_BlWEI/AAAAAAAAG0I/oWfDpmKZRK45PTg4XfGzcRgb69bV4AiQwCLcB/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll take one sketchbook. Two black pens, one fine nib fountain&nbsp;pen, one brush pen and the obligatory bulldog clip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QgY8sqOlDaQ/WADtBTCPfHI/AAAAAAAAGzg/wnellqCPSkU016mh7tTSWO3o08bUl8OQgCLcB/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="391" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QgY8sqOlDaQ/WADtBTCPfHI/AAAAAAAAGzg/wnellqCPSkU016mh7tTSWO3o08bUl8OQgCLcB/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I will need to take refills for the fountain pen. I might take my dip pen, just in case, too.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bPeAAU53vtk/WAD1lrt-c6I/AAAAAAAAG0g/arl6CCOwWGorSwNGiv8nfDSoxi0D7wqfgCLcB/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bPeAAU53vtk/WAD1lrt-c6I/AAAAAAAAG0g/arl6CCOwWGorSwNGiv8nfDSoxi0D7wqfgCLcB/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mustn't forget my glasses.&nbsp;But, I'm really impressed with how light I'm travelling.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBzpIkDulzA/WADtEfLV3vI/AAAAAAAAGzo/SIN7XRo2YL83xZCb6xQHbCgw_RX4sc19ACLcB/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="373" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jBzpIkDulzA/WADtEfLV3vI/AAAAAAAAGzo/SIN7XRo2YL83xZCb6xQHbCgw_RX4sc19ACLcB/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'm thinking, though, that I might as well take one or two fine liners. I'm going to take a paint brush too because I'll probably want to put a wash over whatever it is I draw. Might just take my back up&nbsp;fountain pen&nbsp;and back up brush pen too. That's all though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1YcGF-ZaMZo/WADtGA__FNI/AAAAAAAAGzs/4nXQ7xG92uEM8SNk7s2Q0uAg6EK1H6eMQCLcB/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="386" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1YcGF-ZaMZo/WADtGA__FNI/AAAAAAAAGzs/4nXQ7xG92uEM8SNk7s2Q0uAg6EK1H6eMQCLcB/s400/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But then if I'm taking a paint brush I'll need some water. I'll take a jar with diluted black ink in. Then I could take a water brush with clean water in. Yes, I'll do that. I might take two jars of water with two different inky-water mixes in. And&nbsp;one white pen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KGrY32PHEWQ/WADtHonyPZI/AAAAAAAAGzw/0iaeLlX3LewCaW4poCa_looVAXp52ajxgCLcB/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KGrY32PHEWQ/WADtHonyPZI/AAAAAAAAGzw/0iaeLlX3LewCaW4poCa_looVAXp52ajxgCLcB/s400/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I think what I'll do is take another sketchbook so I have a choice in paper size/format. I don't want to get there and not have the right shaped paper. So that's&nbsp;all I'm going to&nbsp;take. Hold on...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-17Y08uLqFm4/WADtJfheUzI/AAAAAAAAGz0/AV8YXPpJeMYsLmvm_lJdgCJvp-kn2j-mQCLcB/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OR8jbHAW00g/WADtLAuogMI/AAAAAAAAGz4/K__hBlqtc7AE05tb0wXHQ_0qaVJKR4B9ACLcB/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OR8jbHAW00g/WADtLAuogMI/AAAAAAAAGz4/K__hBlqtc7AE05tb0wXHQ_0qaVJKR4B9ACLcB/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There's no point in taking a dip pen if I haven't got a bottle of ink. One bottle of black ink. That's all I need. I think I'll take my 'Little Reference Book of Noses' too. That's always useful. In fact, it's essential.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S5peoG6l68s/WADtP0Hq4RI/AAAAAAAAG0A/JRckt7mpKeYzgVQTqAaKCTxRTv5mlbrQwCLcB/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S5peoG6l68s/WADtP0Hq4RI/AAAAAAAAG0A/JRckt7mpKeYzgVQTqAaKCTxRTv5mlbrQwCLcB/s400/10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thing is, what if I need a bit of colour? Just a little splash of colour. I regretted it the last time I didn't take any and needed some red. I'll put the ink box in. I could always leave it in the car when I get there. Just because I'm putting it in the car doesn't mean I'll be carrying it all over town. That's a good idea. A good back up plan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M4YLxKiDQ8k/WADtUSP6fvI/AAAAAAAAG0E/5i3XbeJt5Nkvj9d9TQo4CsI4YnUl0xZNwCLcB/s1600/11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M4YLxKiDQ8k/WADtUSP6fvI/AAAAAAAAG0E/5i3XbeJt5Nkvj9d9TQo4CsI4YnUl0xZNwCLcB/s400/11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">And, if that's the case I might as well take a few bottles of coloured inks. Back up. Sod it I'll take a bag full of them. You never know which colour you'll need.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And that is why I make a rubbish urban sketcher. </div>http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/2016/10/why-i-make-rubbish-urban-sketcher.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (andrea joseph's sketchblog)22